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obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

in DSM–IV–TR and DSM–5, a personality disorder characterized by an extreme need for perfection, an excessive orderliness, an inability to compromise, and an exaggerated sense of moral responsibility (see scrupulosity). Also called compulsive personality disorder.

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